Estimating historical changes in land cover North American croplands from 1850 to 1992

Global Ecology and Biogeography

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 381-396

  Ramankutty, Navin ^a   Foley, Jonathan A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

Agriculture; Croplands; Historical analysis; Inventory data; Land cover change; Land use; North America; Spatially explicit model

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL LAND; AGRICULTURAL MODELING; ALGORITHM; ESTIMATION METHOD; LAND USE CHANGE; VEGETATION HISTORY;

MEXICO; NORTH AMERICA;

EID: 0033511582     PISSN: 1466822X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2699.1999.00141.x     Document Type: Article

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